Reflections from Mirror City

Since D Magazine discovered it in 1986, I have been an admirer of Tom McClellan's writing. Collected in Reflections from Mirror City, McClellan's selected, published and unpublished work is a stygian journey-through South Texas, West Texas, Dallas, in and out of madness, but always toward lucidity and spiritual wholeness. From "Introductory Comments" by Lou Dubose, Editor of the Washington Spectator; with Molly Ivins, co-author of the best-selling Shrub: the Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush. I found all the essays thoughtful, moving, intellectually stimulating, and exciting to read. Professor F. E. Abernathy, Editor Emeritus, Texas Folklore Society . . . These pieces are the personal essay at its very best. The Deal of the Art in the right kind of world would be widely anthologized in college texts, and Poetry and Politics, and Populism also. . . . work of the very highest integrity. Dr. Giles Mitchell, Professor Emeritus, University of North Texas.